You can fix the PC version yourself, they're not going to fix the Vita version.

I don't like the change but I don't see it as censorship, it was probably unintended to imply that they were older. The reason they gave for the change was something along the lines of "it didn't make sense for elementary students to be in the same club as high school students".

I can see their reasoning but this is a fictional setting and a Neptunia one at that, it's not going to follow normal conventions. I don't believe it was stated that they went to different schools, that the school wasn't a large complex that supported multiple grades, that they couldn't attend the same clubs as their sisters.

It was an unnecessary change, one that screwed with the characters and one that shouldn't have been made.

Next time, IFI, don't use creative license to over-localize and screw with crap.

Originally Posted by GogettersYou can fix the PC version yourself, they're not going to fix the Vita version.

I don't like the change but I don't see it as censorship, it was probably unintended to imply that they were older. The reason they gave for the change was something along the lines of "it didn't make sense for elementary students to be in the same club as high school students".

I can see their reasoning but this is a fictional setting and a Neptunia one at that, it's not going to follow normal conventions. I don't believe it was stated that they went to different schools, that the school wasn't a large complex that supported multiple grades, that they couldn't attend the same clubs as their sisters.

It was an unnecessary change, one that screwed with the characters and one that shouldn't have been made.

Next time, IFI, don't use creative license to over-localize and screw with crap.

There are a couple issues with patching that will make it a problem. In order to patch a game, you need access to the files to replace English version files with Japanese version files. This is best done with the PC version as you have easy access to all the resource files that the game uses. But there's a problem. The Japanese version never had a PC release, only a Vita release. So no way to get Japanese PC version assets to put into the English version of the game, because no such Japanese PC version exists. This leaves the Japanese version Vita game as a source for resources, but there is currently no way to dump files from a Vita game card onto your computer (though the hacking community is working on this). Even if you somehow COULD dump the resource files from the Japanese Vita version of the game, it's highly unlikely that the files would be compatible with the English PC version of the game. PC games are fundamentally different from Vita games, because PCs don't have the same CPU as the Vita. There is a direct incompatibility between the games. Even if some of the resource files were compatible (like maybe MP4 videos which are a cross-platform standard) it's unlikely that they will match in other ways that are important. For example, the PC version intro might have 1080p resolution for the intro video, but the Vita version might be 720p at best, so going between versions means reducing resolution. And upscaling it with FFMPEG (or other similar software) requires reencoding (recompressing) the video, which has the downside of reducing its quality. And that's assuming that Vita video files are a standard format like MP4. What if they are a proprietary format, designed to work only with the Vita graphics chip? That would then require a video converter to convert from the Vita format to a standard format (such as MP4), and such a converter would not be publicly available (probably a proprietary software tool that comes with Sony's Vita development kit, which costs LOTS of money).

So in short, there's really no way to uncensor the English version of the game. And this is why I wrote my petition, to officially ask IFI to release an uncensored English version (either on Vita or PC, but preferably both).

So again, anybody here on these forums who believes IFI should release an uncensored English version of this game, PLEASE sign my petition. It's been 5 days since I started the petition, and this thread with the link to the petition, but so far only one person has signed it (despite there being more than one member of these forums). So PLEASE, anybody here who agrees that it should be re-released 100% UNCENSORED in the English version, PLEASE sign that petition.

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